Provenance
1Jacques Zoubaloff ParisCatalogue des tableaux modernes […] formant de la collection de M. Jacques Zoubaloff, (sale cat.) Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (16–17 June 1927), no. 149, Wildenstein no. 875.
2Van Gelder Amsterdam & The Hague Wildenstein no. 875.
3Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London AStEGB, Sale confirmation from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz, [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London] signed by F. K. Lloyd, to Emil Bührle, 1 October 1953, regarding a group of 10 artworks sold to Bührle for a total sum of £ 40.000 (= CHF 480.000), including Redon, La Chute de Phaéton. Payment of this amount will be made in two installments, £ 27.000 from a Swiss account in London to Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, and £ 13.000 at an exchange rate of 12 CHF=1 £ (= CHF 156.000) to be transferred to Trafo's account with UBS Zurich.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 2 October 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 850 (with a 6% discount), Sale confirmation as above, n. (3), with prices for each artwork handwritten by Emil Bührle; AStEGB, Payment order, made by Emil Bührle, 1 October 1953, to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, for the sum of CHF 156.000 to be transferred to Trafo, Vaduz, and Confirmation of execution of payment from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 2 October 1953.
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 83.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvrepeint et dessiné, 4 vol., Paris, 1992-1998.
Exhibitions
1938Exhibition of Paintings by Odilon Redon Wildenstein & Co. • London • 1938 no. 1.
1950French Masters of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, Second Series Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1950 no. 50.
1983Odilon Redon Kunstmuseum Winterthur • Kunsthalle Bremen • 1983–84 p. 222.
2001Odilon Redon entre rêve et mystère Museum of Modern Art, Gunma • Museum of Fine Arts, Yamagata • Odakyu Museum, Tokyo • Museum of Fine Arts, Hiroshima • 2001 no. 52.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 83.
References
1964Klaus Berger Odilon Redon, Phantasie und Farbe Cologne • 1964 • no. 151.
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 76 (ill.; 21986).
1994Alec Wildenstein • Agnès Lacau St-Guily Odilon Redon,Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint et dessiné vol. 2 Mythes et légendes Paris • 1994 • no. 875 (ill.).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 90 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 320 (ill.).